A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline

`With insight, intelligence and unexpected tenderness, Guest explores notions of trust and betrayal, identity and responsibility, and in particular, memory and what may be left if it is stripped away.' * Adelaide Advertiser *
`This gentle story is wrapped around a journey on the Indian Pacific train across the vast Australian continent.' * Australian Women's Weekly *
`Guest's descriptive prose is exquisite...A marvellous read from a talented author.' * BookMooch *
`A tender novel about how and why we forget.' * New Zealand Herald *
`With its Shakespearean plot dimensions, A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline exists on the plane of memories, where grief can enlarge small events and erase larger ones... An engaging read.' * Newtown Review of Books *
`Guest's writing is poetic, littered with finely observed descriptions, and musings about the nature of memory and self.' * Saturday Paper *
`A gentle train ride across the Nullarbor and through the frailties of life...Guest's cadence and visual imagery is superb, the novel oozing with tenderness.' * Herald Sun *
`Guest has given us a character able to ask many of the important questions about a life and its purpose. A thoughtful and challenging story.' * Otago Daily Times *
`A compelling novel...Contemplative and wise.' * ANZ LitLovers *
`Glenda Guest takes a plot worthy of Shakespearean romance and infuses it with vividness, melancholy and an acute sense of place whether she's writing about the remote outback or Sydney in the 70s.' * Sydney Morning Herald *
'This is a contemplative novel, loose, relaxed and spacious...The way we move in and out of experience feels close to life, punctuated with flashes of mystery and significance.' * Australian *
`Delights and shocks with its spiritual energy and refreshingly original voice.' * Courier-Mail, on Siddon Rock *
'This book will echo in your memory.' * Herald Sun, on Siddon Rock *
`An absorbing read.' * Whispering Gums *